Louisville, KY-IN

National Compensation Survey

February 1999

________________________________________________________________________________________________

U.S. Department of Labor

Alexis M. Herman, Secretary

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner

September 1999

Bulletin 3095-65
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Preface

Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the

Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) National Compensation

Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted

without the cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in

this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their

cooperation.

Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the

Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology

and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and prepared the

survey for publication.

For additional information regarding this survey, please

contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone number listed on the inside back cover of this bulletin. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning,

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The data contained in this bulletin are also available at

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Data are in three formats: An ASCII file containing the

published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional

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Results of earlier surveys of this area are also available

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Data Analysis, or at the BLS Internet site.

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with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory

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Contents

Page

Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 1

Tables:

A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries........................................... 2

A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and

 State and local government........................................................................................................... 4

A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers,

 all industries ................................................................................................................................. 6

A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations,

 full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................ 9

B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries,

 private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ 11

B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries,

 private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ 14

C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics,

 all industries ................................................................................................................................. 16

C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division,

 private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... 17

C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size,

 private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... 18

C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ............................................................... 19

Appendixes:

A. Technical Note................................................................................................................................. A-1

 Table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented......................................................... A-5

 Table 2. Relative standard errors................................................................................................... A-6

 Table 3. Average work levels ........................................................................................................ A-8

B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................ B-1

C. Generic Leveling Criteria................................................................................................................. C-1

D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ........................................................................................................... D-1

E. A Guide for Users of Prior BLS Wage Surveys............................................................................... E-1
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Introduction

The tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS survey results for the Louisville, KY-IN, metropolitan area. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels.

Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and

several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology.

NCS products

The National Compensation Survey of the Bureau of Labor

Statistics provides data on the occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions,

and the Nation as a whole. The Employment Cost Index, a

quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for

wages and benefits, will be derived from the NCS. Another

product, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation,

measures employers’ average hourly costs for total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Still another NCS

product measures the incidence of benefit plans and their

provisions. This bulletin is limited to data on occupational

wages and salaries.

About the tables

The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings. Straight-time earnings include wages

and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. These earnings exclude premium pay for

overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. A total of 480 detailed occupations are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households).

Table A-1 presents straight-time earnings for detailed

occupations. Data are not shown for any occupations if

they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the

survey respondent or if the data are insufficient to support

reliable estimates. The earnings shown include the mean

for each occupation, as well as earnings for selected percentiles in each occupation.

Table A-2 compares the type of data and details shown

in table A-1 for the private industry and State and local

government sector.

Table A-3 compares the type of data and details shown

in table A-1 for full-time and part-time workers. The definitions of full-time and part-time workers are those used in

the surveyed establishments.

Table A-4 presents the weekly and annual straight-time

earnings for full-time employees in specific occupations

across all industries. For the weekly and annual earnings,

the mean and median earnings and the mean hours are

shown. The mean hours reflect hours employees are

scheduled to work, excluding overtime hours.

Table B-1 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings

for groups of occupations and for levels of job requirements related to occupations in the group. Separate data

are also shown for private industry and government workers, and for full-time and part-time workers in all industries. (See appendix C, Generic Leveling Criteria, for more

information on job ranking in this survey. Average work

levels for published occupation groups and their component occupations are presented in appendix table 3.)

Table B-2 also presents mean straight-time hourly

earnings, but for detailed occupations at several levels of

job requirements for each detailed occupation.

Table C-1 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings

for occupation groups and selected occupation characteristics. The occupation characteristics include full-time and

part-time status, union and nonunion status, and time or incentive pay status. Union workers’ wages are determined

through collective bargaining. Time workers’ wages are

based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers’

wages are at least partially based on productivity payments

such as piece rates, commissions and production bonuses.

Table C-2 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings

for occupation groups and industry division of employers;

these are limited to the private sector.

Table C-3 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings

for occupation groups and the employment size of employers; these are also limited to the private sector.

Table C-4 presents the employment scope of this survey. The occupation employment estimates shown relate to

all employers in the area surveyed, not just the surveyed

employers.
Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Louisville,

KY-IN, February 1999

Occupation3

All industries

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90

All occupations ....................................................................... $15.89 $7.25 $9.33 $14.14 $20.29 $25.64

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 15.83 7.35 9.57 14.29 20.43 24.84

White-collar occupations ................................................... 18.62 8.13 10.63 15.65 22.50 33.80

White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 18.86 9.00 11.30 16.30 22.50 32.91

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 22.42 12.21 15.36 20.43 26.04 36.26

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 24.85 14.30 17.95 21.63 31.01 37.79

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 24.22 19.04 20.43 21.96 26.86 35.42

Industrial engineers .............................................. 25.27 20.64 21.63 25.50 30.00 30.00

Mechanical engineers ........................................... 24.79 20.43 20.43 20.43 26.97 37.07

Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 34.00 16.57 20.00 28.85 50.48 50.48

Natural scientists ...................................................... – – – – – –

Health related occupations ....................................... 19.74 14.67 16.50 19.50 21.27 25.00

Registered nurses ................................................ 18.72 14.58 16.38 18.97 20.85 22.50

Teachers, college and university .............................. 33.46 18.29 30.17 33.50 41.86 47.29

Teachers, except college and university .................. 30.74 19.59 24.11 32.82 36.63 39.48

Elementary school teachers ................................. 30.18 19.46 24.22 32.10 36.05 38.92

Secondary school teachers .................................. 30.91 21.30 23.81 32.79 36.32 39.11

Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. 20.60 12.59 15.42 18.92 22.56 34.44

Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... – – – – – –

Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –

Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 14.38 9.71 10.94 13.62 15.25 22.23

Social workers ...................................................... 14.85 9.43 11.21 14.07 16.66 23.22

Lawyers and judges .................................................. 40.88 23.08 28.98 34.51 44.08 69.46

Lawyers ................................................................ 40.88 23.08 28.98 34.51 44.08 69.46

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... 19.12 10.67 11.80 16.59 23.97 31.20

Technical occupations .................................................. 15.40 10.95 12.28 15.13 18.50 20.88

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 16.22 9.85 13.41 17.92 18.50 19.02

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 14.46 10.81 11.53 13.24 16.06 21.50

Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... 12.68 7.69 10.90 11.99 15.23 18.14

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 26.14 15.63 18.24 23.68 30.15 42.20

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 27.97 16.00 18.61 25.53 34.50 42.93

Administrators and officials, public administration 22.48 17.72 18.17 19.53 26.65 34.50

Financial managers .............................................. 35.81 24.04 25.86 41.63 42.93 42.93

Managers, marketing, advertising and public

relations .......................................................... 30.17 14.42 15.63 19.13 44.21 65.36

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 26.17 16.57 19.57 25.53 30.20 39.08

Management related occupations ............................ 21.67 14.50 17.33 20.83 26.78 29.97

Personnel, training, and labor relations

specialists ....................................................... 23.33 16.85 21.11 23.68 26.78 29.86

Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 18.67 12.53 14.74 19.23 19.71 23.18

Sales occupations ............................................................ 16.89 6.10 7.24 9.11 17.80 40.84

Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 28.11 12.50 16.09 27.27 47.95 47.95

Cashiers ............................................................... 7.58 5.47 6.09 7.04 8.46 9.90

Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.26 8.00 9.17 11.00 14.27 17.88

Secretaries ........................................................... 12.68 8.90 10.50 12.32 14.61 16.30

Receptionists ........................................................ 8.87 7.86 8.00 8.54 10.28 10.38

Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 14.48 8.31 9.95 14.18 18.43 20.18

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.65 8.57 9.25 11.58 14.24 14.70

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 12.39 9.25 11.00 13.36 13.72 14.62

Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 10.25 7.61 8.00 8.93 13.28 13.50

Material recording, scheduling, and distribution

clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 12.57 8.14 8.14 10.83 18.04 21.03

Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 11.53 7.64 10.50 10.75 13.33 16.93

General office clerks ............................................. 10.41 6.76 8.01 9.00 12.25 16.15

Teachers’ aides .................................................... 7.48 6.16 6.33 7.19 8.44 9.76

Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 10.29 7.50 7.70 9.33 11.76 14.60

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 14.83 7.35 9.98 14.90 20.29 22.12

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 18.76 12.30 14.80 20.88 22.16 23.40

Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 20.70 13.19 19.44 21.37 22.92 26.23

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 20.64 15.88 20.72 21.20 22.60 22.60

Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. 19.49 15.93 16.58 18.14 20.50 25.14

Electricians ........................................................... 20.62 17.07 17.07 20.88 24.60 24.60

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Louisville,

KY-IN, February 1999 — Continued

Occupation3

All industries

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations 

(-Continued)

Supervisors, production occupations .................... $21.78 $13.24 $15.23 $21.86 $24.23 $29.38

Butchers and meat cutters .................................... 11.06 6.50 9.73 11.70 14.00 14.00

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 14.98 6.75 9.80 16.45 20.29 21.60

Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 15.73 7.31 12.14 15.55 20.29 23.14

Welders and cutters .............................................. 13.47 8.00 9.93 13.28 17.85 18.90

Assemblers ........................................................... 16.60 9.57 15.27 17.41 20.93 21.60

Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 17.54 11.14 13.75 21.24 21.24 21.24

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 13.44 9.38 10.46 12.75 16.13 17.40

Truck drivers ......................................................... 13.16 9.11 10.46 13.08 16.25 17.11

Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 11.05 9.72 10.06 10.50 12.57 12.57

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 10.23 6.30 7.35 8.68 12.50 17.18

Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and

laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 15.76 12.90 14.22 14.53 18.89 18.89

Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 9.56 5.58 6.59 8.18 11.91 17.85

Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 13.56 8.00 8.40 15.00 17.18 17.88

Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 14.24 9.85 12.03 14.30 17.19 17.19

Hand packers and packagers ............................... 9.63 6.50 8.57 9.75 11.64 11.64

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 8.13 6.50 6.50 7.35 8.75 10.08

Service occupations ........................................................... 9.05 5.24 6.70 8.25 10.07 14.73

Protective service occupations ................................. 13.99 9.35 10.39 13.78 15.83 19.14

Police and detectives, public service .................... 16.15 13.78 13.78 14.98 17.75 19.95

Food service occupations ......................................... 6.50 2.43 5.21 6.20 7.96 9.27

Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 3.93 2.13 2.43 3.74 5.39 6.55

Cooks ................................................................... 7.79 5.34 6.81 7.55 8.51 9.79

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 8.16 6.15 6.70 7.90 9.26 10.29

Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. 6.36 5.15 5.50 6.29 7.25 7.49

Health service occupations ....................................... 8.48 6.76 7.45 8.17 9.28 10.24

Health aides, except nursing ................................ 10.18 6.88 8.37 9.37 10.61 13.30

Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 8.17 6.73 7.43 8.00 9.04 9.87

Cleaning and building service occupations .............. 9.94 6.40 7.20 8.50 11.37 15.46

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 9.42 6.10 7.02 8.16 10.08 15.37

Personal service occupations ................................... 8.84 7.00 7.65 8.62 10.07 11.13

Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... 8.93 7.10 7.96 8.61 9.93 11.28

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid

to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living

adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for

overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 

The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and

dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th,

25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the

earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of

the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown,

and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or

less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn

the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th

percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.

Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a

part-time schedule based on the definition used by each

establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week

schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one

establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a

40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual

occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.

Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major

occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data

did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and

occupational levels may include data for categories not shown

separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this

update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the

positional statistics where averages were collected. This

procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote

level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates

from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean

wages for the occupation.

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Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Louisville,

KY-IN, February 1999

Occupation3

Private industry State and local government

Mean

Percentiles

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90 10 25 Median50 75 90

All occupations ..................................................... $15.54 $7.02 $9.00 $13.98 $20.18 $23.72 $17.88 $8.30 $10.24 $14.92 $22.60 $35.24

All occupations excluding sales .......................... 15.44 7.23 9.40 14.19 20.23 23.14 17.90 8.31 10.26 14.94 22.60 35.24

White-collar occupations ................................. 17.90 8.00 10.28 14.96 20.88 30.55 21.81 10.14 13.40 19.08 30.83 37.82

White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... 18.07 8.80 10.96 15.63 21.01 29.86 21.85 10.14 13.45 19.08 30.86 37.88

Professional specialty and technical

occupations .............................................. 21.15 12.28 15.26 19.36 22.50 31.45 25.05 11.99 15.65 23.97 34.98 38.58

Professional specialty occupations ............. 23.77 14.47 17.71 20.85 25.82 36.10 26.56 13.89 18.91 25.75 35.47 38.92

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... 23.80 19.04 20.43 21.63 25.50 35.42 – –––––

Industrial engineers ............................ 25.27 20.64 21.63 25.50 30.00 30.00 – –––––

Mechanical engineers ......................... 24.79 20.43 20.43 20.43 26.97 37.07 – –––––

Mathematical and computer scientists ... – – – – – – – –––––

Natural scientists .................................... – – – – – – – –––––

Health related occupations ..................... 19.74 14.58 16.76 19.50 21.30 24.46 19.69 14.89 16.08 19.33 20.64 25.95

Registered nurses .............................. 18.73 14.58 16.44 18.92 20.85 22.50 18.57 14.73 15.88 19.31 20.64 21.18

Teachers, college and university ............ – – – – – – – –––––

Teachers, except college and university – – – – – – 31.04 20.05 24.64 32.91 36.63 39.48

Elementary school teachers ............... – – – – – – 30.89 20.22 25.51 32.37 36.05 38.92

Secondary school teachers ................ – – – – – – 30.91 21.30 23.81 32.79 36.32 39.11

Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... – – – – – – – –––––

Social scientists and urban planners ...... – – – – – – – –––––

Social, recreation, and religious workers – – – – – – 14.20 10.15 12.24 14.05 14.93 17.84

Social workers .................................... – – – – – – 14.20 10.15 12.24 14.05 14.93 17.84

Lawyers and judges ................................ – – – – – – – –––––

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,

and professionals, N.E.C. ................. 20.42 11.76 12.70 18.16 26.14 34.19 – –––––

Technical occupations ................................ 15.80 11.44 12.66 15.60 18.50 20.88 12.91 7.69 9.87 12.23 13.40 19.69

Clinical laboratory technologists and

technicians .................................... 16.19 9.85 13.39 17.92 18.50 18.86 – –––––

Licensed practical nurses ................... 15.04 10.81 11.51 13.43 19.54 22.50 12.80 10.82 11.85 13.14 13.40 14.28

Executive, administrative, and managerial

occupations .............................................. 27.37 16.83 19.71 25.85 30.65 42.93 22.25 14.10 16.04 18.63 25.07 41.99

Executives, administrators, and

managers .......................................... 29.13 16.57 19.80 26.71 35.77 42.93 24.24 15.01 16.80 19.11 31.34 43.02

Administrators and officials, public

administration ............................... – – – – – – 22.48 17.72 18.17 19.53 26.65 34.50

Financial managers ............................ 35.81 24.04 25.86 41.63 42.93 42.93 – –––––

Managers, marketing, advertising and

public relations .............................. 30.17 14.42 15.63 19.13 44.21 65.36 – –––––

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 27.67 18.50 22.12 27.36 31.25 39.08 – –––––

Management related occupations .......... 23.01 16.85 19.09 23.05 26.78 30.31 17.62 13.62 14.15 16.06 20.41 22.60

Personnel, training, and labor

relations specialists ...................... 23.75 16.85 21.11 23.68 26.78 29.86 – –––––

Management related occupations,

N.E.C. ........................................... 18.64 12.53 18.46 19.23 19.71 23.05 – –––––

Sales occupations .......................................... 16.94 6.10 7.25 9.12 17.80 40.84 – –––––

Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 28.11 12.50 16.09 27.27 47.95 47.95 – –––––

Cashiers ............................................. 7.59 5.47 6.09 7.04 8.48 10.25 – –––––

Administrative support occupations, including

clerical ...................................................... 12.35 8.00 9.25 11.00 14.41 17.88 11.38 7.88 8.89 10.69 13.48 15.70

Secretaries ......................................... 12.73 8.90 10.50 12.19 14.92 16.91 12.47 9.71 11.12 12.51 14.27 15.10

Receptionists ...................................... 8.78 7.86 8.00 8.22 10.28 10.38 – –––––

Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 14.52 8.31 10.95 14.18 19.50 20.18 – –––––

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing

clerks ............................................ 11.63 8.57 9.25 11.58 14.26 14.70 – –––––

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 12.67 6.68 11.00 13.63 13.72 15.12 – –––––

Stock and inventory clerks .................. 10.25 7.61 8.00 8.93 13.28 13.50 – –––––

Investigators and adjusters except

insurance ...................................... 11.53 7.64 10.50 10.75 13.33 16.93 – –––––

General office clerks ........................... 10.64 7.35 8.01 9.00 12.25 16.15 8.53 6.72 7.75 8.30 8.84 11.20

Teachers’ aides .................................. – – – – – – 8.28 6.72 7.41 8.13 9.16 10.08

Administrative support occupations,

N.E.C. ........................................... 10.36 7.50 7.89 9.33 11.92 14.60 – –––––

Blue-collar occupations ................................... 14.89 7.31 9.98 15.00 20.29 22.12 13.01 8.72 10.07 12.90 15.05 18.14

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Louisville,

KY-IN, February 1999 — Continued

Occupation3

Private industry State and local government

Mean

Percentiles

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90 10 25 Median50 75 90

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)

Precision production, craft, and repair

occupations .............................................. $18.84 $12.30 $14.85 $20.91 $22.16 $23.40 $16.33 $10.02 $14.65 $15.60 $18.51 $22.49

Industrial machinery repairers ............ 20.70 13.19 19.44 21.37 22.92 26.23 – –––––

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ 20.78 15.88 20.80 21.20 22.60 22.60 – –––––

Supervisors, construction trades,

N.E.C. ........................................... 19.65 16.00 16.58 18.60 21.20 25.14 – –––––

Electricians ......................................... 20.62 17.07 17.07 20.88 24.60 24.60 – –––––

Supervisors, production occupations .. 21.79 13.20 14.98 21.25 24.37 29.38 – –––––

Butchers and meat cutters .................. 11.06 6.50 9.73 11.70 14.00 14.00 – –––––

Machine operators, assemblers, and

inspectors ................................................. 14.98 6.75 9.80 16.45 20.29 21.60 – –––––

Miscellaneous machine operators,

N.E.C. ........................................... 15.73 7.31 12.14 15.55 20.29 23.14 – –––––

Welders and cutters ............................ 13.47 8.00 9.93 13.28 17.85 18.90 – –––––

Assemblers ......................................... 16.60 9.57 15.27 17.41 20.93 21.60 – –––––

Production inspectors, checkers and

examiners ..................................... 17.54 11.14 13.75 21.24 21.24 21.24 – –––––

Transportation and material moving

occupations .............................................. 13.44 9.33 10.46 12.75 16.13 17.40 13.52 11.26 11.75 13.50 15.05 15.05

Truck drivers ....................................... 13.19 9.11 10.46 13.08 16.25 17.11 – –––––

Industrial truck and tractor equipment

operators ...................................... 11.05 9.72 10.06 10.50 12.57 12.57 – –––––

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and

laborers ..................................................... 10.19 6.30 7.21 8.55 12.37 17.18 10.66 8.08 9.00 10.10 12.90 14.25

Machine feeders and offbearers ......... 9.56 5.58 6.59 8.18 11.91 17.85 – –––––

Freight, stock, and material handlers,

N.E.C. ........................................... 13.56 8.00 8.40 15.00 17.18 17.88 – –––––

Hand packers and packagers ............. 9.63 6.50 8.57 9.75 11.64 11.64 – –––––

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 7.92 6.50 6.50 7.35 8.55 9.30 9.42 5.67 8.60 9.57 10.51 12.75

Service occupations ......................................... 7.79 5.15 6.05 7.45 8.69 10.44 11.47 7.28 8.61 10.00 13.78 16.64

Protective service occupations ............... – – – – – – 14.16 9.35 10.60 13.78 16.13 19.86

Police and detectives, public service .. – – – – – – 16.15 13.78 13.78 14.98 17.75 19.95

Food service occupations ....................... 6.28 2.43 5.15 6.05 7.38 9.13 8.58 7.26 7.61 8.29 9.16 9.67

Waiters and waitresses ...................... 3.93 2.13 2.43 3.74 5.39 6.55 – –––––

Cooks ................................................. 7.59 5.24 5.49 7.38 8.51 10.30 – –––––

Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... 8.16 6.15 6.70 7.90 9.26 10.29 – –––––

Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. 6.24 5.15 5.50 6.29 7.25 7.25 – –––––

Health service occupations ..................... 8.50 6.83 7.45 8.12 9.28 10.24 8.39 6.58 7.09 8.43 9.29 10.13

Health aides, except nursing .............. 10.39 6.76 8.17 10.10 11.40 14.04 – –––––

Nursing aides, orderlies and

attendants ..................................... 8.15 6.86 7.45 8.00 8.90 9.76 8.33 6.58 6.91 8.08 9.47 10.40

Cleaning and building service

occupations ...................................... 9.78 5.98 6.75 8.20 9.70 20.49 10.17 6.92 7.63 9.54 12.16 15.01

Janitors and cleaners ......................... 9.70 5.60 6.75 8.00 9.86 20.49 8.95 6.59 7.26 8.23 10.62 12.04

Personal service occupations ................. – – – – – – 9.37 7.88 8.38 8.79 10.34 11.30

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium

pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is

computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,

weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in

the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive

the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the

rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less

than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than

the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as

working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each

establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be

considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover

all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine

major occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication

criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for

categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR

SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A

procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were

collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with

the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by

the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Louisville, KY-IN, February

1999

Occupation3

All industries

Full-time Part-time

Mean

Percentiles

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90 10 25 Median50 75 90

All occupations ..................................................... $16.41 $7.58 $9.83 $14.61 $20.80 $26.44 $9.13 $5.24 $6.00 $7.63 $9.76 $17.88

All occupations excluding sales .......................... 16.15 7.58 9.85 14.62 20.50 25.53 9.95 5.15 5.92 7.90 14.60 18.66

White-collar occupations ................................. 19.37 8.80 11.28 16.28 23.05 35.01 10.84 6.00 7.10 8.00 14.60 20.50

White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... 19.05 9.00 11.42 16.50 22.52 33.73 14.94 8.21 9.52 14.70 18.74 23.97

Professional specialty and technical

occupations .............................................. 22.58 12.12 15.30 20.39 27.33 36.40 19.27 12.50 15.80 20.85 23.97 23.97

Professional specialty occupations ............. 25.04 14.30 17.93 21.65 31.45 37.88 20.50 14.84 18.10 21.30 23.97 23.97

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... 24.22 19.04 20.43 21.96 26.86 35.42 – –––––

Industrial engineers ............................ 25.27 20.64 21.63 25.50 30.00 30.00 – –––––

Mechanical engineers ......................... 24.79 20.43 20.43 20.43 26.97 37.07 – –––––

Mathematical and computer scientists ... 34.00 16.57 20.00 28.85 50.48 50.48 – –––––

Natural scientists .................................... – – – – – – – –––––

Health related occupations ..................... 19.79 14.72 16.63 19.50 21.18 25.00 – –––––

Registered nurses .............................. 18.70 14.58 16.44 18.95 20.85 22.50 – –––––

Teachers, college and university ............ 33.46 18.29 30.17 33.50 41.86 47.29 – –––––

Teachers, except college and university 30.91 19.84 24.32 32.82 36.63 39.48 – –––––

Elementary school teachers ............... 30.18 19.46 24.22 32.10 36.05 38.92 – –––––

Secondary school teachers ................ 30.91 21.30 23.81 32.79 36.32 39.11 – –––––

Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... – – – – – – – –––––

Social scientists and urban planners ...... – – – – – – – –––––

Social, recreation, and religious workers 14.38 9.71 10.94 13.62 15.25 22.23 – –––––

Social workers .................................... 14.85 9.43 11.21 14.07 16.66 23.22 – –––––

Lawyers and judges ................................ 41.30 23.08 28.98 34.51 44.08 69.46 – –––––

Lawyers .............................................. 41.30 23.08 28.98 34.51 44.08 69.46 – –––––

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,

and professionals, N.E.C. ................. 18.40 10.39 11.78 15.65 24.46 31.45 – –––––

Technical occupations ................................ 15.24 10.97 12.20 14.69 18.14 20.85 17.36 7.44 12.50 18.03 22.50 22.50

Clinical laboratory technologists and

technicians .................................... 16.19 9.85 13.39 17.92 18.50 18.86 – –––––

Licensed practical nurses ................... 13.32 10.54 11.21 12.55 14.35 17.23 – –––––

Health technologists and technicians,

N.E.C. ........................................... 12.60 8.67 11.24 11.90 14.20 18.14 – –––––

Executive, administrative, and managerial

occupations .............................................. 26.21 15.63 18.27 23.68 30.20 42.32 – –––––

Executives, administrators, and

managers .......................................... 28.08 16.04 18.63 25.53 34.50 42.93 – –––––

Administrators and officials, public

administration ............................... 22.48 17.72 18.17 19.53 26.65 34.50 – –––––

Financial managers ............................ 35.81 24.04 25.86 41.63 42.93 42.93 – –––––

Managers, marketing, advertising and

public relations .............................. 30.91 14.42 15.63 19.23 44.21 65.36 – –––––

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 26.17 16.57 19.57 25.53 30.20 39.08 – –––––

Management related occupations .......... 21.67 14.50 17.33 20.83 26.78 29.97 – –––––

Personnel, training, and labor

relations specialists ...................... 23.33 16.85 21.11 23.68 26.78 29.86 – –––––

Management related occupations,

N.E.C. ........................................... 18.67 12.53 14.74 19.23 19.71 23.18 – –––––

Sales occupations .......................................... 23.04 7.57 9.65 14.35 29.78 47.95 7.33 6.00 6.20 7.19 7.73 8.48

Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 28.18 12.50 16.09 27.27 47.95 47.95 – –––––

Cashiers ............................................. 8.84 6.09 7.29 8.59 9.80 12.37 6.48 5.36 5.62 6.30 6.99 7.90

Administrative support occupations, including

clerical ...................................................... 12.30 8.00 9.25 11.00 14.25 17.88 11.60 7.73 8.95 10.50 14.70 17.88

Secretaries ......................................... 12.84 8.91 10.63 12.49 14.76 16.60 – –––––

Receptionists ...................................... 8.97 8.00 8.00 8.54 10.28 10.38 – –––––

Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 14.48 8.31 9.95 14.18 18.43 20.18 – –––––

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing

clerks ............................................ 11.33 8.57 9.25 11.00 13.23 14.26 – –––––

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 12.49 9.93 11.00 13.36 13.72 15.12 – –––––

Stock and inventory clerks .................. 10.25 7.61 8.00 8.93 13.28 13.50 – –––––

Material recording, scheduling, and

distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 12.57 8.14 8.14 10.83 18.04 21.03 – –––––

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Louisville, KY-IN, February

1999 — Continued

Occupation3

All industries

Full-time Part-time

Mean

Percentiles

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90 10 25 Median50 75 90

White-collar occupations (-Continued)

Administrative support occupations, including

clerical (-Continued)

Investigators and adjusters except

insurance ...................................... $11.98 $8.82 $10.50 $11.00 $13.33 $16.93 – –––––

General office clerks ........................... 10.42 6.76 8.01 9.00 12.25 16.15 – –––––

Administrative support occupations,

N.E.C. ........................................... 9.86 7.50 7.69 9.03 11.63 13.20 – –––––

Blue-collar occupations ................................... 14.98 7.44 10.10 15.00 20.29 22.16 $8.43 $6.00 $6.10 $7.00 $8.25 $14.92

Precision production, craft, and repair

occupations .............................................. 18.81 12.30 14.85 20.88 22.16 23.40 – –––––

Industrial machinery repairers ............ 20.70 13.19 19.44 21.37 22.92 26.23 – –––––

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ 20.64 15.88 20.72 21.20 22.60 22.60 – –––––

Supervisors, construction trades,

N.E.C. ........................................... 19.49 15.93 16.58 18.14 20.50 25.14 – –––––

Electricians ......................................... 20.62 17.07 17.07 20.88 24.60 24.60 – –––––

Supervisors, production occupations .. 21.78 13.24 15.23 21.86 24.23 29.38 – –––––

Butchers and meat cutters .................. 11.06 6.50 9.73 11.70 14.00 14.00 – –––––

Machine operators, assemblers, and

inspectors ................................................. 15.02 6.75 9.85 16.45 20.29 21.60 – –––––

Miscellaneous machine operators,

N.E.C. ........................................... 15.73 7.31 12.14 15.55 20.29 23.14 – –––––

Welders and cutters ............................ 13.47 8.00 9.93 13.28 17.85 18.90 – –––––

Assemblers ......................................... 16.60 9.57 15.27 17.41 20.93 21.60 – –––––

Production inspectors, checkers and

examiners ..................................... 17.54 11.14 13.75 21.24 21.24 21.24 – –––––

Transportation and material moving

occupations .............................................. 13.44 9.38 10.46 12.75 16.13 17.40 – –––––

Truck drivers ....................................... 13.16 9.11 10.46 13.08 16.25 17.11 – –––––

Industrial truck and tractor equipment

operators ...................................... 11.05 9.72 10.06 10.50 12.57 12.57 – –––––

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and

laborers ..................................................... 10.46 6.50 7.35 9.00 12.90 17.18 – –––––

Supervisors, handlers, equipment

cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. ..... 15.76 12.90 14.22 14.53 18.89 18.89 – –––––

Machine feeders and offbearers ......... 9.67 5.58 6.59 7.85 12.18 17.85 – –––––

Freight, stock, and material handlers,

N.E.C. ........................................... 13.77 7.50 8.40 16.35 17.18 17.73 – –––––

Hand packers and packagers ............. 9.75 7.03 9.51 9.75 11.64 11.64 – –––––

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 8.13 6.50 6.50 7.35 8.75 10.08 – –––––

Service occupations ......................................... 9.62 6.05 7.27 8.56 10.69 15.05 5.98 3.74 5.15 5.50 7.33 8.50

Protective service occupations ............... 14.07 9.35 10.60 13.78 15.83 19.47 – –––––

Police and detectives, public service .. 16.15 13.78 13.78 14.98 17.75 19.95 – –––––

Food service occupations ....................... 7.20 2.43 6.00 7.25 8.51 10.00 5.17 2.75 5.15 5.24 5.65 6.67

Cooks ................................................. 8.51 7.26 7.38 8.10 9.27 10.17 – –––––

Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... 8.63 6.70 7.09 8.56 9.90 11.43 – –––––

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Louisville, KY-IN, February

1999 — Continued

Occupation3

All industries

Full-time Part-time

Mean

Percentiles

Mean

Percentiles

10 25 Median

50 75 90 10 25 Median50 75 90

Service occupations (-Continued)

Health service occupations ..................... $8.49 $6.73 $7.45 $8.18 $9.28 $10.14 $8.42 $6.78 $7.45 $8.17 $9.00 $10.61

Health aides, except nursing .............. 10.16 6.76 8.17 8.88 11.40 14.04 – –––––

Nursing aides, orderlies and

attendants ..................................... 8.20 6.58 7.43 8.00 9.09 9.94 7.98 6.78 7.45 8.00 8.61 9.30

Cleaning and building service

occupations ...................................... 10.09 6.40 7.20 8.70 11.77 15.87 – –––––

Janitors and cleaners ......................... 9.59 6.27 7.15 8.24 10.66 15.37 – –––––

Personal service occupations ................. 9.09 7.44 7.96 8.63 10.07 11.13 – –––––

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium

pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is

computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,

weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in

the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive

the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the

rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less

than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than

the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based

on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a

35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one

establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the

minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover

all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine

major occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication

criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for

categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A

procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were

collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with

the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by

the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,

Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Occupation3

All industries

Mean

weekly

hours4

Weekly earnings Mean

annual

hours

Annual earnings

Mean Median Mean Median

All occupations ....................................................................... 39.6 $649 $574 2,021 $33,164 $29,640

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 39.6 639 574 2,019 32,609 29,640

White-collar occupations ................................................... 39.4 763 628 1,990 38,540 32,312

White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 39.3 749 630 1,984 37,783 32,323

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 39.0 881 789 1,883 42,524 39,250

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 38.9 974 834 1,834 45,915 42,471

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 42.1 1,020 952 2,190 53,028 49,504

Industrial engineers .............................................. 40.0 1,011 1,020 2,080 52,555 53,040

Mechanical engineers ........................................... 40.0 992 817 2,080 51,560 42,494

Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 39.5 1,342 1,154 2,052 69,777 60,008

Natural scientists ...................................................... ––––––

Health related occupations ....................................... 38.1 754 751 1,974 39,078 39,000

Registered nurses ................................................ 37.9 709 725 1,962 36,697 37,624

Teachers, college and university .............................. 35.8 1,199 1,217 1,388 46,459 48,545

Teachers, except college and university .................. 36.0 1,112 1,185 1,386 42,838 45,030

Elementary school teachers ................................. 35.4 1,069 1,161 1,324 39,973 42,944

Secondary school teachers .................................. 35.1 1,084 1,161 1,321 40,828 42,957

Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... ––––––

Social scientists and urban planners ........................ ––––––

Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 39.2 564 513 2,041 29,351 26,657

Social workers ...................................................... 39.1 581 527 2,033 30,190 27,398

Lawyers and judges .................................................. 48.4 1,999 1,647 2,517 103,942 85,636

Lawyers ................................................................ 48.4 1,999 1,647 2,517 103,942 85,636

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... 40.2 740 587 2,090 38,464 30,518

Technical occupations .................................................. 39.4 600 584 2,047 31,201 30,389

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 39.2 635 696 2,040 33,017 36,213

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 39.6 527 498 2,058 27,410 25,896

Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... 40.0 504 476 2,080 26,211 24,752

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 39.7 1,041 947 2,063 54,053 49,261

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 39.9 1,120 1,058 2,069 58,097 55,016

Administrators and officials, public administration 38.3 860 732 1,990 44,741 38,084

Financial managers .............................................. 39.6 1,419 1,665 2,061 73,795 86,590

Managers, marketing, advertising and public

relations .......................................................... 39.9 1,232 769 2,073 64,076 39,998

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 40.1 1,050 1,076 2,087 54,612 55,931

Management related occupations ............................ 39.4 854 822 2,048 44,388 42,764

Personnel, training, and labor relations

specialists ....................................................... 39.7 925 947 2,062 48,109 49,261

Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 40.0 746 769 2,078 38,796 39,998

Sales occupations ............................................................ 39.7 916 573 2,066 47,610 29,806

Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 39.8 1,120 1,091 2,067 58,259 56,722

Cashiers ............................................................... 39.0 345 334 2,027 17,922 17,372

Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 39.5 485 439 2,043 25,129 22,797

Secretaries ........................................................... 38.9 499 491 2,020 25,938 25,460

Receptionists ........................................................ 39.5 355 341 2,056 18,444 17,746

Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 39.6 573 567 2,059 29,816 29,494

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 39.3 445 440 2,044 23,152 22,880

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 41.0 512 545 2,132 26,632 28,350

Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 40.0 410 357 2,080 21,320 18,574

Material recording, scheduling, and distribution

clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 39.0 490 379 2,028 25,486 19,711

Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 39.9 478 440 2,072 24,836 22,880

General office clerks ............................................. 39.1 408 360 2,025 21,106 18,366

Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 39.3 387 360 2,045 20,150 18,720

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 40.1 600 611 2,082 31,195 31,720

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 40.2 756 836 2,089 39,289 43,493

Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 39.3 814 855 2,044 42,306 44,450

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 40.0 825 848 2,080 42,926 44,096

Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. 45.6 889 900 2,370 46,203 46,800

Electricians ........................................................... 40.0 825 835 2,080 42,888 43,430

Supervisors, production occupations .................... 39.9 868 874 2,073 45,158 45,468

Butchers and meat cutters .................................... 40.0 442 468 2,080 23,002 24,336

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 39.7 596 659 2,064 30,991 34,254

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,

Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999 — Continued

Occupation3

All industries

Mean

weekly

hours4

Weekly earnings Mean

annual

hours

Annual earnings

Mean Median Mean Median

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors 

(-Continued)

Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 39.2 $617 $658 2,039 $32,066 $34,216

Welders and cutters .............................................. 40.0 539 531 2,080 28,025 27,622

Assemblers ........................................................... 40.0 664 697 2,080 34,519 36,219

Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 40.0 702 850 2,080 36,478 44,179

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 40.9 550 522 2,118 28,452 27,144

Truck drivers ......................................................... 42.6 561 531 2,216 29,168 27,602

Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 40.0 442 420 2,080 22,980 21,840

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 40.0 418 360 2,080 21,754 18,720

Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and

laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 41.3 651 640 2,149 33,854 33,275

Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 40.0 387 314 2,080 20,115 16,328

Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 40.0 551 654 2,080 28,651 34,000

Hand packers and packagers ............................... 40.0 390 390 2,080 20,276 20,280

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 40.0 325 294 2,080 16,905 15,288

Service occupations ........................................................... 38.6 372 332 1,948 18,747 16,640

Protective service occupations ................................. 40.2 566 551 2,091 29,426 28,666

Police and detectives, public service .................... 38.7 626 574 2,015 32,540 29,835

Food service occupations ......................................... 37.2 268 266 1,834 13,208 12,397

Cooks ................................................................... 36.9 314 302 1,657 14,098 13,287

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 40.0 345 343 2,080 17,948 17,814

Health service occupations ....................................... 38.7 328 314 2,010 17,065 16,307

Health aides, except nursing ................................ 39.9 405 354 2,075 21,082 18,429

Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 38.4 315 303 1,999 16,382 15,766

Cleaning and building service occupations .............. 39.4 397 346 2,023 20,417 17,879

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 39.3 377 320 2,012 19,302 16,640

Personal service occupations ................................... 37.0 337 321 1,557 14,159 13,210

1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are

premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 

The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the

number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates

position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half

receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where

a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used

to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified

into one of nine major occupational groups. 

4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a

week, exclusive of overtime.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may

include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere

classified." 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. 

A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages

were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the

quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the

prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the

occupation.

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Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,

State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Occupational group3 and level

All workers 4 All industries

All industriesPrivate

industry

State and

local

government

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

All occupations ....................................................................... $15.89 $15.54 $17.88 $16.41 $9.13

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 15.83 15.44 17.90 16.15 9.95

White-collar occupations ................................................... 18.62 17.90 21.81 19.37 10.84

Level 2 .............................................................. 8.13 8.16 7.55 8.25 7.78

Level 3 .............................................................. 9.56 9.58 9.37 10.03 7.86

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.09 11.17 10.27 11.46 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 15.27 15.38 14.69 15.11 17.35

Level 6 .............................................................. 14.60 14.77 14.07 14.57 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 20.75 17.66 26.18 20.88 17.56

Level 8 .............................................................. 21.13 19.95 23.35 21.14 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.75 24.63 25.15 24.77 –

Level 10 ............................................................ 26.59 24.17 – 26.61 –

Level 11 ............................................................ 37.40 37.60 – 37.40 –

Level 12 ............................................................ 36.00 35.87 – 36.00 –

White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 18.86 18.07 21.85 19.05 14.94

Level 2 .............................................................. 8.18 8.20 – 8.08 8.69

Level 3 .............................................................. 10.22 10.31 9.37 10.19 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.76 11.93 10.27 11.65 13.23

Level 5 .............................................................. 13.77 13.54 14.69 13.41 17.35

Level 6 .............................................................. 14.64 14.82 14.07 14.60 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 20.74 17.63 26.18 20.88 17.56

Level 8 .............................................................. 21.09 19.86 23.35 21.10 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 23.52 22.97 25.15 23.52 –

Level 10 ............................................................ 26.64 23.62 – 26.67 –

Level 11 ............................................................ 35.32 35.42 – 35.32 –

Level 12 ............................................................ 36.00 35.87 – 36.00 –

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 22.42 21.15 25.05 22.58 19.27

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 24.85 23.77 26.56 25.04 20.50

Level 5 .............................................................. 16.12 13.69 – 13.23 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 13.76 13.60 – 13.69 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 23.48 18.64 27.13 23.80 17.97

Level 8 .............................................................. 24.25 19.76 29.18 24.27 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.25 22.42 29.64 24.27 –

Level 10 ............................................................ 24.70 24.68 – 24.72 –

Level 11 ............................................................ 41.03 42.60 – 41.03 –

Level 12 ............................................................ 38.93 39.12 – 38.93 –

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 24.22 23.80 – 24.22 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.36 24.36 – 24.36 –

Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 34.00 – – 34.00 –

Natural scientists ...................................................... –––––

Health related occupations ....................................... 19.74 19.74 19.69 19.79 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 18.39 18.46 – 18.46 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 19.51 19.90 – 19.51 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 20.58 – – 20.45 –

Teachers, college and university .............................. 33.46 – – 33.46 –

Teachers, except college and university .................. 30.74 – 31.04 30.91 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 29.97 – 29.97 30.12 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 35.45 – 35.45 35.45 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 31.71 – 31.71 31.71 –

Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... –––––

Social scientists and urban planners ........................ –––––

Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. 14.38 – 14.20 14.38 –

Lawyers and judges .................................................. 40.88 – – 41.30 –

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... 19.12 20.42 – 18.40 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.22 24.22 – 24.22 –

Technical occupations .................................................. 15.40 15.80 12.91 15.24 17.36

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.37 11.96 – 11.49 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 14.39 14.39 – 14.41 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 14.51 14.64 – 14.46 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 16.48 – – 16.48 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 18.74 19.14 – 17.83 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 26.14 27.37 22.25 26.21 –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,

State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999 —

Continued

Occupational group3 and level

All workers 4 All industries

All industriesPrivate

industry

State and

local

government

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

White-collar occupations (-Continued)

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations 

(-Continued)

Level 7 .............................................................. $19.10 $19.07 – $19.36 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 19.60 20.36 $18.28 19.60 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 23.10 24.74 19.58 23.10 –

Level 10 ............................................................ 27.83 22.97 – 27.83 –

Level 11 ............................................................ 33.59 33.66 – 33.59 –

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 27.97 29.13 24.24 28.08 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 19.86 20.03 – 20.33 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 18.76 18.45 – 18.76 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.78 26.32 – 24.78 –

Level 11 ............................................................ 33.59 33.66 – 33.59 –

Level 12 ............................................................ 33.76 33.42 – 33.76 –

Management related occupations ............................ 21.67 23.01 17.62 21.67 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 20.85 23.11 – 20.85 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 20.91 22.28 – 20.91 –

Sales occupations ............................................................ 16.89 16.94 – 23.04 $7.33

Level 3 .............................................................. 7.52 7.52 – 8.04 7.36

Level 4 .............................................................. – – – 9.59 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 14.05 14.05 – 14.05 –

Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.26 12.35 11.38 12.30 11.60

Level 2 .............................................................. 8.18 8.20 – 8.08 8.69

Level 3 .............................................................. 10.22 10.31 9.37 10.19 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.83 11.93 10.69 11.68 13.98

Level 5 .............................................................. 13.13 13.24 12.63 13.13 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 15.32 15.40 – 15.32 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 16.17 16.15 – 16.17 –

Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... 14.83 14.89 13.01 14.98 8.43

Level 1 .............................................................. 6.80 6.81 – 6.85 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 9.17 9.17 – 9.06 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 14.58 14.81 10.32 14.57 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 12.63 12.67 – 12.64 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 15.67 15.70 – 15.67 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 15.75 15.96 14.26 15.76 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 19.51 19.63 – 19.51 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 20.86 20.86 – 20.86 –

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 18.76 18.84 16.33 18.81 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 12.03 12.04 – 11.74 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 15.40 15.42 – 15.40 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 14.16 14.02 – 14.15 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 20.12 20.17 – 20.12 –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 14.98 14.98 – 15.02 –

Level 1 .............................................................. 5.97 5.97 – 5.99 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 8.69 8.69 – 8.69 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 16.59 16.59 – 16.59 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 12.46 12.46 – 12.46 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 16.72 16.72 – 16.72 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 18.90 18.90 – 18.90 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 18.27 18.27 – 18.27 –

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 13.44 13.44 13.52 13.44 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 11.41 11.36 – 11.35 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 13.29 13.30 – 13.29 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 13.33 13.26 – 13.33 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 10.23 10.19 10.66 10.46 –

Level 1 .............................................................. 7.25 7.29 – 7.47 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 9.22 9.22 – 9.05 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 13.31 14.03 9.80 13.31 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.51 11.56 – 11.60 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 12.60 12.48 – 12.34 –

Service occupations ........................................................... 9.05 7.79 11.47 9.62 5.98

Level 1 .............................................................. 6.24 6.13 7.21 6.85 5.56

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,

State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999 —

Continued

Occupational group3 and level

All workers 4 All industries

All industriesPrivate

industry

State and

local

government

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

Service occupations (-Continued)

Level 2 .............................................................. $7.41 $7.21 – $7.81 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.11 7.74 $9.38 8.34 $6.64

Level 4 .............................................................. 10.27 10.31 10.24 10.32 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 12.03 10.43 12.80 12.16 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 13.83 – 13.55 13.83 –

Protective service occupations ............................... 13.99 – 14.16 14.07 –

Level 6 .............................................................. 13.55 – 13.55 13.55 –

Food service occupations ........................................ 6.50 6.28 8.58 7.20 5.17

Level 1 .............................................................. 5.84 5.84 – 6.71 5.45

Level 2 .............................................................. 5.07 ––––

Level 3 .............................................................. 7.24 7.22 – 7.65 –

Health service occupations ..................................... 8.48 8.50 8.39 8.49 8.42

Level 2 .............................................................. 7.49 7.49 – 7.47 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.26 8.21 – 8.34 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 9.10 9.13 – 9.12 –

Cleaning and building service occupations ............ 9.94 9.78 10.17 10.09 –

Level 1 .............................................................. 6.85 6.73 7.66 6.93 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 11.32 – – 11.32 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.80 8.21 9.59 8.88 –

Personal service occupations ................................. 8.84 – 9.37 9.09 –

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,

and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,

holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed

by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an

establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,

complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the

occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to

determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for

more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual

occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.

Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major

occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees

are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time

schedule.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did

not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and

occupational levels may include data for categories not shown

separately. N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. 

ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS

WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this

update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the

positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure

compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the

same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior

survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the

occupation.

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Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private

industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Occupation3 and level

All workers4 All industries

All industriesPrivate

industry

State and

local

government

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

White-collar occupations:

Professional specialty and technical occupations:

Professional specialty occupations:

Industrial engineers .............................................. $25.27 $25.27 – $25.27 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 24.02 24.02 – 24.02 –

Mechanical engineers ........................................... 24.79 24.79 – 24.79 –

Registered nurses ................................................ 18.72 18.73 $18.57 18.70 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 18.39 18.46 – 18.46 –

Level 8 .............................................................. 18.93 – – 18.92 –

Elementary school teachers ................................. 30.18 – 30.89 30.18 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 32.17 – 32.17 32.17 –

Secondary school teachers .................................. 30.91 – 30.91 30.91 –

Level 9 .............................................................. 33.12 – 33.12 33.12 –

Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. 20.60 ––––

Social workers ...................................................... 14.85 – 14.20 14.85 –

Lawyers ................................................................ 40.88 – – 41.30 –

Technical occupations:

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 16.22 16.19 – 16.19 –

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 14.46 15.04 12.80 13.32 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 12.05 12.21 – 12.00 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 13.12 ––––

Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... 12.68 – – 12.60 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:

Administrators and officials, public administration 22.48 – 22.48 22.48 –

Financial managers .............................................. 35.81 35.81 – 35.81 –

Managers, marketing, advertising and public

relations .......................................................... 30.17 30.17 – 30.91 –

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 26.17 27.67 – 26.17 –

Personnel, training, and labor relations

specialists ....................................................... 23.33 23.75 – 23.33 –

Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 18.67 18.64 – 18.67 –

Sales occupations:

Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 28.11 28.11 – 28.18 –

Cashiers ............................................................... 7.58 7.59 – 8.84 $6.48

Level 3 .............................................................. 7.11 7.11 – 8.04 –

Administrative support occupations, including clerical:

Secretaries ........................................................... 12.68 12.73 12.47 12.84 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 12.68 12.79 – 12.95 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 12.29 12.28 – 12.35 –

Receptionists ........................................................ 8.87 8.78 – 8.97 –

Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 14.48 14.52 – 14.48 –

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.65 11.63 – 11.33 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 9.90 9.88 – 9.90 –

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 12.39 12.67 – 12.49 –

Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 10.25 10.25 – 10.25 –

Material recording, scheduling, and distribution

clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 12.57 – – 12.57 –

Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 11.53 11.53 – 11.98 –

General office clerks ............................................. 10.41 10.64 8.53 10.42 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.94 – – 8.94 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 10.69 – – 10.69 –

Teachers’ aides .................................................... 7.48 – 8.28 – –

Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 10.29 10.36 – 9.86 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 11.41 11.73 – 10.65 –

Blue-collar occupations:

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:

Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 20.70 20.70 – 20.70 –

Level 7 .............................................................. 21.73 21.73 – 21.73 –

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 20.64 20.78 – 20.64 –

Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. 19.49 19.65 – 19.49 –

Electricians ........................................................... 20.62 20.62 – 20.62 –

Supervisors, production occupations .................... 21.78 21.79 – 21.78 –

Butchers and meat cutters .................................... 11.06 11.06 – 11.06 –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private

industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

— Continued

Occupation3 and level

All workers4 All industries

All industriesPrivate

industry

State and

local

government

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued)

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:

Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... $15.73 $15.73 – $15.73 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 11.75 11.75 – 11.75 –

Level 5 .............................................................. 16.80 16.80 – 16.80 –

Welders and cutters .............................................. 13.47 13.47 – 13.47 –

Assemblers ........................................................... 16.60 16.60 – 16.60 –

Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 17.54 17.54 – 17.54 –

Transportation and material moving occupations:

Truck drivers ......................................................... 13.16 13.19 – 13.16 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 13.69 13.69 – 13.69 –

Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 11.05 11.05 – 11.05 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers:

Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and

laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 15.76 – – 15.76 –

Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 9.56 9.56 – 9.67 –

Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 13.56 13.56 – 13.77 –

Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 14.24 ––––

Hand packers and packagers ............................... 9.63 9.63 – 9.75 –

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 8.13 7.92 $9.42 8.13 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 7.87 7.87 – 7.87 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 9.90 – – 9.90 –

Service occupations:

Protective service occupations:

Police and detectives, public service .................... 16.15 – 16.15 16.15 –

Food service occupations:

Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 3.93 3.93 – – –

Cooks ................................................................... 7.79 7.59 – 8.51 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 7.58 7.58 – – –

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 8.16 8.16 – 8.63 –

Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. 6.36 6.24 – – –

Level 1 .............................................................. 5.88 5.88 – – –

Health service occupations:

Health aides, except nursing ................................ 10.18 10.39 – 10.16 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 9.28 ––––

Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 8.17 8.15 8.33 8.20 $7.98

Level 2 .............................................................. 7.44 7.44 – – –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.26 8.21 – 8.34 –

Level 4 .............................................................. 9.05 9.01 – 9.07 –

Cleaning and building service occupations:

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 9.42 9.70 8.95 9.59 –

Level 1 .............................................................. 6.89 6.74 7.66 7.01 –

Level 2 .............................................................. 11.32 – – 11.32 –

Level 3 .............................................................. 8.71 8.14 9.61 8.81 –

Personal service occupations:

Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... 8.93 ––––

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,

and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,

holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed

by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an

establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,

complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the

occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to

determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for

more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual

occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.

Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major

occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees

are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time

schedule.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did

not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and

occupational levels may include data for categories not shown

separately. N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. 

ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS

WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this

update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the

positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure

compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the

same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior

survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the

occupation.

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Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Louisville,

KY-IN, February 1999

Occupational group2 Full-time

workers3

Part-time

workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5

All occupations ....................................................................... $16.41 $9.13 $17.75 $15.36 $15.72 $18.97

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 16.15 9.95 17.96 15.20 15.89 13.55

White-collar occupations ................................................... 19.37 10.84 21.94 18.26 18.27 23.67

White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 19.05 14.94 23.51 18.34 18.83 –

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 22.58 19.27 26.93 21.41 22.38 –

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 25.04 20.50 29.28 23.82 24.87 –

Technical occupations .................................................. 15.24 17.36 18.96 14.72 15.40 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 26.21 – – 26.14 26.28 –

Sales occupations ............................................................ 23.04 7.33 – 17.69 10.59 23.97

Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 12.30 11.60 16.13 11.94 12.26 –

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 14.98 8.43 17.30 13.25 15.00 11.79

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 18.81 – 20.46 16.87 18.84 –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 15.02 – 17.69 13.07 15.29 10.85

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 13.44 – 13.92 13.27 13.44 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 10.46 – 9.85 10.35 10.28 –

Service occupations ........................................................... 9.62 5.98 11.67 8.54 9.05 –

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay

of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is

used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are

classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,

where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through

collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary;

incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on

productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production

bonuses.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may

include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not

elsewhere classified." 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update

survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics

where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality

survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. 

Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in

mean wages for the occupation.

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Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Louisville, KY-IN,

February 1999

Occupational group3 All private

industries

Goods-producing industries4 Service-producing industries5

Total Mining

ConstructionManufacturing

Total

Transportation

and

public

utilities

Wholesale

and

retail

trade

Finance,

insurance,

and

real

estate

Services

All occupations ........................................................................... $15.54 $17.33 – – $17.23 –––– $14.36

All occupations excluding sales ................................................ 15.44 17.30 – – 17.20 – – – – 14.42

White-collar occupations ....................................................... 17.90 20.23 – – 20.38 – – – – 17.68

White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 18.07 20.28 – – 20.45 – – – – 17.83

Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ 21.15 22.88 – – 23.25 – – – – 20.40

Professional specialty occupations ................................... 23.77 26.31 – – 27.79 – – – – 22.89

Technical occupations ...................................................... 15.80 15.49 – – 15.49 – – – – 14.88

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... 27.37 27.33 – – 27.70 – – – – 27.85

Sales occupations ................................................................ 16.94 19.39 – – 19.39 –––––

Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 12.35 12.74 – – 12.69 – – – – 11.15

Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... 14.89 16.22 – – 16.02 – – – – 8.00

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............. 18.84 20.85 – – 20.94 –––––

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. 14.98 15.61 – – 15.61 –––––

Transportation and material moving occupations ................. 13.44 15.74 – – 15.58 – – – – 10.21

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 10.19 11.35 – – 11.38 – – – – 6.94

Service occupations ............................................................... 7.79 16.82 – – 16.82 – – – – 8.32

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium

pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is

computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,

weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as

working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each

establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be

considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover

all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine

major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale

and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication

criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for

categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR

SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A

procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were

collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with

the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by

the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private

industry, all workers2, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Occupational group3

All private

industry

workers

50 - 99

workers

100 workers or more

Total 100 - 499

workers

500

workers or

more

All occupations ....................................................................... $15.54 $14.17 $15.96 $14.56 $17.78

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 15.44 12.71 16.12 14.72 17.91

White-collar occupations ................................................... 17.90 18.04 17.86 18.04 17.66

White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 18.07 16.57 18.35 18.81 17.90

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 21.15 16.07 21.72 24.50 19.07

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 23.77 16.18 24.93 29.24 20.71

Technical occupations .................................................. 15.80 – 15.82 15.43 16.18

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 27.37 29.11 26.93 24.48 28.54

Sales occupations ............................................................ 16.94 20.06 10.20 10.63 –

Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 12.35 11.42 12.56 13.46 11.48

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 14.89 11.92 15.68 13.30 19.09

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 18.84 14.06 20.22 19.31 21.36

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 14.98 9.81 15.56 11.75 19.05

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 13.44 12.81 13.76 13.08 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 10.19 10.32 10.13 9.25 –

Service occupations ........................................................... 7.79 6.81 8.18 7.17 10.45

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,

and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,

holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed

by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees

are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time

schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual

occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.

Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major

occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did

not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and

occupational levels may include data for categories not shown

separately. N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. 

ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS

WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this

update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the

positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure

compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the

same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior

survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the

occupation.

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Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Louisville, KY-IN,

February 1999

Occupational group2

All workers

All industries Private

industry

State and

local government

All occupations ....................................................................... 289,680 243,611 46,069

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 267,878 221,899 45,979

White-collar occupations ................................................... 142,611 113,687 28,924

White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 120,809 91,975 28,834

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 47,884 29,615 18,269

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 36,222 19,768 16,455

Technical occupations .................................................. 11,662 9,847 1,815

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 22,429 16,798 5,631

Sales occupations ............................................................ 21,802 21,712 –

Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 50,496 45,562 4,934

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 104,107 100,626 3,481

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 27,365 26,329 –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 39,132 39,132 –

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 16,007 14,972 1,035

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 21,602 20,192 1,410

Service occupations ........................................................... 42,962 29,298 13,664

1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in

the survey. Employees are classified as working either a

full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition

used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a

35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time

in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the

minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual

occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian

economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of

nine major occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that

data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational

groups and occupational levels may include data for

categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means not

elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED

REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. 

ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE

RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in

this update survey. A procedure was put into place to

"move" the positional statistics where averages were

collected. This procedure compares current locality survey

data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior

survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by

the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Appendix A: Technical Note

This section provides basic information on the procedures

and concepts used to produce the data contained in this

bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data.

Although this section answers some questions commonly

asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description

of all the steps required to produce the data.

Planning for the survey

The overall design of the survey includes questions of

scope, frame, and sample selection.

Survey scope

This survey covered establishments employing 50 workers

or more in goods-producing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries

(transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary

services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance,

and real estate; and services industries); and State and local

governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey an establishment was an

economic unit which produces goods or services, a central

administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support

services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment

was defined as all locations of a government entity.

The Louisville, KY-IN, Metropolitan Statistical Area

includes Bullitt, Jefferson, and Oldham Counties, KY; and

Clark, Floyd, Harrison, and Scott Counties, IN.

Sampling frame

The list of establishments from which the survey sample

was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State

unemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility of

industries within the private sector, sampling frames were

developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The sampling

frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business

and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and

other information were updated.

Sample design

The sample for this survey area was selected using a two

stage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample

selection was a probability sample of establishments. The

sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the

sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of

sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each

sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a

probability proportional to its employment. Use of this

technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were

applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated

so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy which were not selected for

collection. See appendix table 1 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage

of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment.

Data collection

The collection of data from survey respondents required

detailed procedures. Collection was the responsibility of

the field economists, working out of the Regional Office,

who visited each establishment surveyed. Other contact

methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to followup and update data.

Occupational selection and classification

Identification of the occupations for which wage data were

to be collected was a multi-step process:

1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs.

2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the

Census of Population system.

3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time,

union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive.

4. Determination of the level of work of each job.

For each occupation, wage data were collected for those

workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three

steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for

which a correct classification or level could not be determined.

In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each

establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal

visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling,
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with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment.

As with the selection of establishments, the selection of

a job was based on probability proportional to its size in

the establishment. The greater the number of people

working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance

of selection.

The number of jobs collected in each establishment was

based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in

the following schedule:

Number of employees Number of selected jobs

50-99 8

100-249 10

250-999 12

1000-2,499 16

2,500+ 20

The second step of the process entailed classifying the

selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The

National Compensation Survey occupational classification

system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational

classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In

cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census

classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level

were used to classify the job. Classification by primary

duties was the fallback.

Each occupational classification is an element of a

broader classification known as a major occupational group

(MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following

MOGs:

· Professional specialty and technical

· Executive, administrative, and managerial

· Sales

· Administrative support including clerical

· Precision production, craft, and repair

· Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors

· Transportation and material moving

· Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers

· Service occupations

Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual

occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong.

In step three, certain other job characteristics of the chosen

worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as

holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the worker

was classified as having a time versus incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on

the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on

hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being

in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of

Terms” section on the following page for more detail.

Generic leveling through point factor analysis

In the last step before wage data were collected, the work

level of each selected job was determined using a “generic

leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all

occupations randomly selected in an establishment using

the same criteria. This is a major departure from the

method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational

Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined

occupations with leveling definitions unique to each occupation.

For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10

leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the

U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for

evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The

tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the

effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental.

The 10 factors are:

· Knowledge

· Supervision received

· Guidelines

· Complexity

· Scope and effect

· Personal contacts

· Purpose of contacts

· Physical demands

· Work environment

· Supervisory duties

Each factor contains a number of levels and each level

has an associated written description and point value. The

number and range of points differ among the factors. For

each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on

which written description best matched the job. Within

each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties

was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3

presents average work levels for published occupational

groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C.

Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the

survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are

shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their

firm.

Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers

using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic

level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis

showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a

given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed

research continues in the area. The results of this research

will be published by BLS in the future.
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Collection period

The survey data were collected over several months. For

each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection.

The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects

the average date of this information for all sample units.

Earnings

Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time

hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings:

· Incentive pay, including commissions, production

bonuses, and piece rates

· Cost-of-living allowances

· Hazard pay

· Payments of income deferred due to participation

in a salary reduction plan

· Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight

or passengers

The following forms of payments were not considered

part of straight-time earnings:

· Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for

working a schedule that varies from the norm, such

as night or weekend work

· Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends

· Bonuses not directly tied to production (e.g.,

Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses)

· Uniform and tool allowances

· Free room and board

· Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses

given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate)

· On-call pay

In order to calculate earnings for various time periods

(hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were

also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours

worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were

recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because

salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often

work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical

number of hours actually worked was collected.

Definition of terms

Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time.

Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,

at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.

Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical

note and the example for more details on the leveling process.)

Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not

meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below).

Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time.

Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for

the job.

Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are

tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of

production.

Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation

when all of the following conditions are met:

· A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining

agent for all workers in the occupation

· Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations

· Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed mutually binding collective bargaining

agreement

 Processing and analyzing the data

Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National

Office following collection.

Weighting and nonresponse

Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and

occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of

the establishment within the sample universe. Weights

were used to aggregate the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to supply

information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same

or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing

data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the

nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at

some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding

establishments were classified into these cells according to

industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments

were classified into cells that were additionally defined by

major occupation group and job level.

Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights

changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the
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response was treated as a refusal.

Survey response

Establishments

 Total in sample 211

Responding 145

Out of business or not in

 survey scope 12

Unable or refused to pro-

 vide data 54

Some surveys may have a high nonresponse rate for the

all industries or private industry iterations. Such instances

are noted in the bulletin table footnotes.

Estimation

The wage series in the tables are computed by combining

the wages for individual establishment/occupations. Before

being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by:

number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether hourly,

weekly, or annual rates are being calculated.

Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for

publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a

specific establishment.

The number of workers estimates represent the total in

all establishments within the scope of the study and not the

number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures

among establishments differ, estimates of the number of

workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve

only to indicate the relative importance of the occupational

groups studied.

Data reliability

The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically

selected probability sample. There are two types of errors

possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling

and nonsampling.

Sampling errors occur because observations come only

from a sample and not from an entire population. The

sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible

samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different

samples would differ from each other.

A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all

possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the

standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2

contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE

data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office.

The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example,

suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all

workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a

relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At

the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645

times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples

were selected to estimate the population value, the interval

from each sample would include the true population value

approximately 90 percent of the time.

Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They

can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey

definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct

information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data

obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all

survey areas will be used in the development of a formal

quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling

error. Although they were not specifically measured, the

nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the

extensive training of the field economists who gathered the

survey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data,

and detailed data review.
Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size,

and number of establishments represented, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Industry

Number of

establishments represented

Number of establishments studied

Total studied 50 - 99

workers

100 workers or more

Total 100 - 499

workers

500 workers

or more

All industries ......................................................... 1,759 142 36 106 71 35

Private industry ................................................. 1,711 116 34 82 61 21

Goods-producing industries .......................... 439 44 9 35 28 7

Construction ............................................. 102 3 1 2 2 –

Manufacturing ........................................... 337 41 8 33 26 7

Service-producing industries ........................ 1,273 72 25 47 33 14

Tranportation and public utilities ............... 194 9 4 5 3 2

Wholesale and retail trade ........................ 573 18 10 8 7 1

Finance, insurance and real estate .......... 98 5 1 4 2 2

Services .................................................... 407 40 10 30 21 9

State and local government .............................. 48 26 2 24 10 14

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

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Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected

occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all

workers2, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

(in percent)

Occupation3 All industries

Private

industry

State and

local

government

All occupations ....................................................................... 2.7 3.2 4.2

All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 2.7 3.3 4.2

White-collar occupations ................................................... 3.1 3.8 3.9

White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 3.2 3.9 3.9

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ 4.1 6.1 4.3

Professional specialty occupations ............................... 4.6 7.4 4.1

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 6.8 6.6 –

Industrial engineers .............................................. 6.5 6.5 –

Mechanical engineers ........................................... 12.5 12.5 –

Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 23.2 – –

Natural scientists ...................................................... – – –

Health related occupations ....................................... 2.7 3.0 4.8

Registered nurses ................................................ 1.7 1.9 2.3

Teachers, college and university .............................. 11.9 – –

Teachers, except college and university .................. 2.5 – 2.3

Elementary school teachers ................................. 2.5 – 1.1

Secondary school teachers .................................. 1.5 – 1.5

Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. 10.6 – –

Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... – – –

Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – –

Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 7.4 – 3.6

Social workers ...................................................... 8.1 – 3.6

Lawyers and judges .................................................. 9.4 – –

Lawyers ................................................................ 9.4 – –

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... 11.1 13.1 –

Technical occupations .................................................. 3.4 3.3 11.5

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 4.3 4.3 –

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 7.2 8.8 3.5

Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... 9.5 – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 5.0 5.4 11.9

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 6.1 6.6 14.4

Administrators and officials, public administration 9.4 – 9.4

Financial managers .............................................. 9.4 9.4 –

Managers, marketing, advertising and public

relations .......................................................... 19.5 19.5 –

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 5.8 5.5 –

Management related occupations ............................ 6.0 6.1 5.5

Personnel, training, and labor relations

specialists ....................................................... 7.1 6.9 –

Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 7.1 7.5 –

Sales occupations ............................................................ 10.9 10.9 –

Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 17.9 17.9 –

Cashiers ............................................................... 5.8 5.9 –

Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 3.8 4.2 4.2

Secretaries ........................................................... 4.4 5.4 3.6

Receptionists ........................................................ 3.9 4.3 –

Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 13.4 13.5 –

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 4.3 4.7 –

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 7.3 8.1 –

Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 9.6 9.6 –

Material recording, scheduling, and distribution

clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 16.0 – –

Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 8.3 8.3 –

General office clerks ............................................. 6.9 7.6 6.1

Teachers’ aides .................................................... 7.0 – 3.7

Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 7.7 8.3 –

Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... 4.1 4.2 7.5

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 3.9 4.0 9.1

Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 7.1 7.1 –

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 4.4 4.3 –

Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. 5.9 6.5 –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected

occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all

workers2, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999 — Continued

(in percent)

Occupation3 All industries

Private

industry

State and

local

government

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations 

(-Continued)

Electricians ........................................................... 6.3 6.3 –

Supervisors, production occupations .................... 10.3 11.0 –

Butchers and meat cutters .................................... 11.8 11.8 –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 6.5 6.5 –

Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 12.1 12.1 –

Welders and cutters .............................................. 11.9 11.9 –

Assemblers ........................................................... 5.1 5.1 –

Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 10.2 10.2 –

Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 4.7 4.9 6.0

Truck drivers ......................................................... 7.9 8.0 –

Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 3.0 3.0 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 6.1 6.6 7.2

Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and

laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 6.8 – –

Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 11.8 11.8 –

Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 12.3 12.3 –

Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 8.5 – –

Hand packers and packagers ............................... 6.8 6.8 –

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 4.4 4.6 8.2

Service occupations ........................................................... 4.9 5.7 5.2

Protective service occupations ................................. 6.4 – 6.5

Police and detectives, public service .................... 6.0 – 6.0

Food service occupations ......................................... 8.2 8.6 3.3

Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 23.5 23.5 –

Cooks ................................................................... 4.6 6.4 –

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 6.9 6.9 –

Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. 5.2 5.1 –

Health service occupations ....................................... 3.0 3.4 4.2

Health aides, except nursing ................................ 9.9 11.1 –

Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 2.2 2.4 4.9

Cleaning and building service occupations .............. 7.4 10.5 9.7

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 8.0 11.9 6.7

Personal service occupations ................................... 3.5 – 2.3

Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... 3.7 – –

1 The relative standard error is the standard error

expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly

earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables

A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could

not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time

workers. Employees are classified as working either a

full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition

used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with

a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified

as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is

the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480

individual occupations is used to cover all workers in

the civilian economy. Individual occupations are

classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or

that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall

occupational groups and occupational levels may

include data for categories not shown separately. 

N.E.C. means not elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS

WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were

collected in this update survey. A procedure was put

into place to "move" the positional statistics where

averages were collected. This procedure compares

current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the

same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates

from the prior survey are moved by the average

change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,

full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999

Occupation1 All

workers

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

All occupations ................................................................................. 5 6 3

All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 5 6 3

White-collar occupations ............................................................. 6 7 4

White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 7 7 5

Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... 8 8 7

Professional specialty occupations ......................................... 8 8 7

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. 9 9 –

Industrial engineers ........................................................ 9 9 –

Mechanical engineers ..................................................... 8 8 –

Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... 9 9 –

Natural scientists ................................................................ – – –

Health related occupations ................................................. 8 8 –

Registered nurses .......................................................... 8 8 –

Teachers, college and university ........................................ 11 11 –

Teachers, except college and university ............................ 7 7 –

Elementary school teachers ........................................... 8 8 –

Secondary school teachers ............................................ 7 7 –

Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................ 7 – –

Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... – – –

Social scientists and urban planners .................................. – – –

Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................ 6 6 –

Social workers ................................................................ 7 7 –

Lawyers and judges ............................................................ 12 12 –

Lawyers .......................................................................... 12 12 –

Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals,

N.E.C. ........................................................................... 7 7 –

Technical occupations ............................................................ 6 6 6

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........... 7 7 –

Licensed practical nurses ............................................... 6 5 –

Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ................. 5 5 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. 9 10 –

Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... 10 10 –

Administrators and officials, public administration .......... 8 8 –

Financial managers ........................................................ 10 10 –

Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .. 10 10 –

Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................ 10 10 –

Management related occupations ...................................... 9 9 –

Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ 8 8 –

Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... 8 8 –

Sales occupations ...................................................................... 5 6 3

Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... 8 8 –

Cashiers ......................................................................... 3 3 3

Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... 4 4 3

Secretaries ..................................................................... 5 5 –

Receptionists .................................................................. 3 3 –

Records clerks, N.E.C. ................................................... 6 6 –

Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ 4 4 –

Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. 5 5 –

Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. 4 4 –

Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks,

N.E.C. ....................................................................... 4 4 –

Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................ 4 4 –

General office clerks ....................................................... 3 3 –

Teachers’ aides .............................................................. 3 – –

Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... 3 3 –

Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... 5 5 2

Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... 7 7 –

Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ 7 7 –

Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... 7 7 –

Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. ........................ 8 8 –

Electricians ..................................................................... 7 7 –

Supervisors, production occupations .............................. 8 8 –

Butchers and meat cutters .............................................. 4 4 –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ 4 4 –

Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... 4 4 –

Welders and cutters ........................................................ 5 5 –

Assemblers ..................................................................... 4 4 –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,

full-time and part-time workers, Louisville, KY-IN, February 1999 — Continued

Occupation1 All

workers

Full-time

workers

Part-time

workers

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued)

Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ 4 4 –

Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... 4 4 –

Truck drivers ................................................................... 4 4 –

Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ 4 4 –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ 3 3 –

Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and

laborers, N.E.C. ........................................................ 6 6 –

Machine feeders and offbearers ..................................... 3 3 –

Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. 3 3 –

Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... 3 – –

Hand packers and packagers ......................................... 3 3 –

Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. 2 2 –

Service occupations ..................................................................... 3 4 2

Protective service occupations ........................................... 6 6 –

Police and detectives, public service .............................. 7 7 –

Food service occupations ................................................... 2 3 2

Waiters and waitresses .................................................. 2 – –

Cooks ............................................................................. 3 3 –

Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. 2 3 –

Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... 2 – –

Health service occupations ................................................. 3 3 3

Health aides, except nursing .......................................... 4 4 –

Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... 3 3 3

Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ 3 3 –

Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... 2 2 –

Personal service occupations ............................................. 3 3 –

Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. 3 – –

1 A classification system including about 480

individual occupations is used to cover all workers in

the civilian economy. Individual occupations are

classified into one of nine major occupational groups.

The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors,

painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and

legislators cannot be assigned a work level.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or

that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall

occupational groups and occupational levels may

include data for categories not shown separately. 

N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 

NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were

collected in this update survey. A procedure was put

into place to "move" the positional statistics where

averages were collected. This procedure compares

current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the

same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates

from the prior survey are moved by the average

change in mean wages for the occupation.

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